Arrow

Goodenough Bay
Papua New Guinea

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collected 1944

Bamboo and wood

Overall: 65 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (167 × 3.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Richard E. Stoiber, Class of 1932; Collected by Frank Gilbert, Class of 1932

999.16.30476

Geography

Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania

Period

20th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Frank Gilbert, Class of 1932, while on Navy duty in 1944 (World War II). Mr. Gilbert traded t-shirts and cigarettes in exchange for the arrows; given to Professor Richard Edwin Stoiber, Norwich, Vermont by Frank Gilbert's wife, Dorothy, in 1994; given to present collection, 1999.

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